Messalina
Americannoun
noun
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Later we meet Messalina, who remains a byword for manipulative awfulness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another production, the offspring of a kindred pen, was the Love Letters between Polydorus, the Gothic King, and Messalina, late Queen of Albion.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
So far as can be learned, Messalina possessed no such impulses; on the contrary, everything in her contributed to the strength of the evil influences of her environment.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
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